Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Nov 25, 2009, 1:38 pm
Susanna at Her Bath (1526) by the German Renaissance Painter Albrecht Altdorfer (c.1480–1538). Just as most of his contemporaries Altdorfer painted normally religious scenes, but probably he was mu...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Nov 21, 2009, 11:32 am
Herodias (1886) by the Russian painter Iwan Nikolajewitsch Kramskoj (1837-1887). Kramskoj depicts here Herodias the mother of Salome who was the mastermind behind the intrigue against John the Baptis...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Nov 18, 2009, 10:55 am
The finding of Moses (1886) by the English painter Edwin Longsden Long (1829-1891). Long was primarily an Orientalist painter. He had travelled to Spain, Egypt and Syria to provide himself with inspi...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Nov 14, 2009, 12:47 pm
Esther before Ahasuerus (1738-40) by the Italian painter Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787). It’s a typical classicist painting. The scenery is well known – Esther is losing consciousness before ...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Nov 10, 2009, 11:45 am
Judith and Holofernes (1901) by the Austrian Symbolist and Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Judith is lasciviously caressing the head of Holofernes. There is nothing historical in this p...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Nov 5, 2009, 1:16 pm
Samson and Delilah (1878) by the French Academic Painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). Cabanel was the preferred painter of Napoleon III and one of the leading representatives of the so called “L&...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Nov 1, 2009, 1:21 am
Jephthah (1867) by the English Pre-Raphaelite Painter John Everett Millais (1829–1896). Millais focuses on the despair of the father. His daughter is seating on his lap. Gazing into the void she is...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Oct 28, 2009, 11:25 am
Bathsheba (1875-77) by the French painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Cézanne is considered as a Post-Impressionist painter and a kind of bridge between Impressionism and modern art like Cubism. So i...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Oct 23, 2009, 12:55 pm
Hagar in the Wilderness (1835) by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). Corot was a Realist painter and a leading member of the Barbizon school in mid-nineteenth century France....
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Oct 20, 2009, 12:13 pm
Lot and his daughters (1833) by the Italian painter Francesco Hayez (1791-1882). Hayez did here a very traditional painting. In the back is Sodom burning and the statue of the mother could be seen. H...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Oct 16, 2009, 2:51 am
Salome (1906) by the Austrian painter Salome and print makers Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). Kokoschka started his studies at the Vienna School where he became a close friend of Gustav Klimt. But soon ...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Oct 11, 2009, 12:11 pm
Frederick Goodall (1822-1904) was like Alma-Tadema an English Victorian painter. He was specialized in orientalist paintings but did also biblical and historical subjects. His Susanna here seems to me...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Oct 7, 2009, 1:45 pm
The Finding of Moses by Pharaoh's Daughter (1904). This idyllic and cheerful painting is by the Dutch-born victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema English Classicist Painter (1836-1912). He specia...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Oct 3, 2009, 10:11 pm
The Festival of Esther (1865) by the English Victorian era painter Edward Armitage (1817-1896). Armitage focused on historical, classical and biblical subjects. That explains the good historical deco...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 30, 2009, 12:03 am
Judith and Holofernes (1831) by the French painter Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789-1863). This today nearly unknown painting was a great event in its own time. The German poet Heinrich Heine wrote dee...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 26, 2009, 1:22 am
Once more the hard working Ruth is discovered by Boaz, her future husband. Engraving by Paul Gustave Doré (1832–1883) from the illustrated Bible (1866).
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 22, 2009, 11:39 am
Bathsheba by the Italian painter Giovan Battista Naldini (1537-1591). In some way it’s a perfect cool painting, much more drawing than painting. There are Bathsheba and her handmaidens all dressed ...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 17, 2009, 1:55 pm
Jephtah was a judge of the Israelites. In this function he led an army against the Ammonistes. To win the decisive battle he made a vow to sacrifice whatever comes out of the doors of his house when h...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 13, 2009, 11:51 am
Here the sleeping Samson is arrested by a group of well armed soldiers. In the background Delilah is withdrawing, triumphantly she holds Samson’s hair in one and the scissors in the other hand. Sam...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 10, 2009, 2:19 am
The incest of the daughters with her father was only one aspect which could interest painters in the story of Lot. The other was the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the wrath of God. In Renaissance...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 5, 2009, 1:16 pm
Salome (1906) by the American painter Robert Henri (1865–1929). Henri studied in France under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and changed later to Impressionism – I’m sure that Bouguereau never forg...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Sep 1, 2009, 12:53 pm
Once more Susanna and the Elders. Here by the French painter Jacques Stella (1596-1657). Actually it’s the typical nude Susanna painting, with the two old horny guys and the chaste woman, who is ex...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 29, 2009, 12:50 pm
Hagar and Ishmael (1830) by the English landscape painter Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865). Mother and son lost in the wilderness, near to death. It’s a traditional composition but not a great pai...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 25, 2009, 2:08 am
The Banquet of Esther (1640s) by the Dutch baroque painter Jan Victors (1620-?), who was probably a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. Here Esther reveals to the king that she herself is a Jew and that H...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 21, 2009, 1:03 pm
Everybody knows the story of Moses. That he was set adrift on the Nile River in a basket because his mother wanted to save his live. That he was Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her own son,...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 16, 2009, 12:56 pm
This still medieval Bathsheba dates from about 1485 and is by the Dutch Renaissance painter Hans Memling (c.1435-1494). Despite its age there are already all important persons present. The nude seduc...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 12, 2009, 12:54 pm
Lot and his daughters by the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553). It’s probably from about 1528, but that’s not sure because Cranach painted at least four like this. ...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 9, 2009, 11:52 am
Salomé by the French Academic painter Pierre Bonnaud (1865-1930). Salomé is posing here as a triumphant victor. She is totally aware of her sexual power. And maybe feels a kind of pity with her poo...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 5, 2009, 11:46 am
Here a relatively modern interpretation of Samson and Delilah. It’s by the German painter Ernst Liebermann (1869-1960). The painting is not pretending to be realistic. There are no historical costum...
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Judy H. posted an article on Women in the Bible - Aug 1, 2009, 2:44 am
Ruth and Naomi (1886) by the English Painter Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898). Naomi wanted to go back to Bethlehem and Orpah is also on her way. Ruth instead is begging to stay with Naomi. The...
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